Monday

Today was potato day. I gathered nearly 100lbs of "baking tattys", and bagged them up. I also tried something new while dong them, listening to a book on tape, Alice in Wonderland. I'd never read it, and man is that book strange, intersting though. After potatoes I did some planning for the duck house, and then read for a bit.
There's a pond sort of thing near the farm, I don't think they actually own it, and they own a kayak, so the next thing I did was try that. I carried it over, got some strange looks from a farmer on a tractor, and dropped it in. It's one of those kayaks that's mostly designed for white watering I think, and it was a tight squeeze. On top of that, it's very tippy. I wobbled about madly for a while as I started to explore. It's only a medium sized pond, but the other side is obscured by trees, so it was fun to explore. It's quite pretty on the other side, but very shallow from years of silt accumulating. When I got over there, I must have disturbed some big ol' fish, and when it thrashed about it scared the shit out of me and nearly knocked me over, which would've been no good as I had my ipod in my pocket (not very good planning).
Once safely ashore I went and picked blackberries for a couple of hours while finishing Alice, and by then it was dinner and bed. A tiring day with all the potatoe digging and kayak balancing.